May / June 2017

Futura appoints new BoD and promotes Piero Ceccon to CEO

May / June 2017 Helen Morris - June 15, 2017

Futura has announced a new board of directors and promoted Piero Ceccon to chief executive. The board is joined by head of technology & FuturaLab Giovacchino Giurlani and head of operations Giulio...

PAPCEL boosts presence with PMT Italia acquisition

May / June 2017 Helen Morris - June 15, 2017

PAPCEL has completed the acquisition of Pinerolo-based company PMT Italia, helping it expand its presence in the USA and China. PMT manufactures and supplies technology for the production of graphic papers and...

SCA to close tissue production plant in America

May / June 2017 Helen Morris - June 15, 2017

SCA is to close its 55,000tpy tissue production plant in Flagstaff, Arizona. The company said the move was to further improve efficiency and strengthen competitiveness for its Professional Hygiene business in North...

Solenis announces price hike

May / June 2017 Helen Morris - May 31, 2017

Specialty chemicals producer Solenis is to increase its prices on all wet strength and sizing product lines across Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). The hike will see prices increase by 10...

China’s Mancheng Jinguang starts up two TMs in Baoding

May / June 2017 Helen Morris - May 31, 2017

(News from RISI) - Mancheng Jinguang Paper fired up two 12,000tpy tissue machines earlier this month at its sole mill in Baoding city, Hebei province, China. The units, dubbed PM3 and PM4,...

Lee & Man starts up tissue machine in Jiangxi

May / June 2017 Helen Morris - May 31, 2017

(News from RISI) - Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing started trial runs on a new 60,000tpy tissue machine earlier this month at its mill in Jiujiang city, in the inland province...

Hengan Group ramps up capacity with investment

May / June 2017 Helen Morris - May 31, 2017

China’s Hengan Group has boosted its presence in the tissue market after starting up an Andritz-supplied tissue line. The PrimeLineTM W8 tissue machine started up at the tissue mill’s Chongqing mill on...

Paper Prime invests with new TM

May / June 2017 Helen Morris - May 31, 2017

Portugal’s Paper Prime has boosted its capacity after investing in a Toscotec-supplied AHEAD tissue machine. TM1 will be installed at the company’s Vila Velha de Rodão site. Included in the investment is...

Brazil: P&P on a sharp positive trend despite country’s rollercoaster economic performance

May / June 2017 Helen Morris - May 18, 2017

By Bill Burns, Senior Consultant, Fisher International Brazil’s economy was in a strong growth cycle when the global financial crisis of 2008 hit, when its GDP growth rate plummeted from 4+% down to zero. However, recovery from...

Unprecedented number of tissue machines installed since 2010

May / June 2017 David Vallieres - May 18, 2017

With tissue consumption growing at a rapid pace in emerging markets, particularly in China, an unprecedented number of new tissue paper machines have been installed. Numera’s analysis shows that 327 new tissue paper machines...

The future for fibres

May / June 2017 Bill Adams - May 18, 2017

The higher web strength that premium reinforced pulps bring the tissue maker improves tissue machine and converting efficiency, says Bill Adams, senior director at Canfor Pulp, the world’s fifth largest producer of market...

Investments mean more ECF pulp from Södra

May / June 2017 Helen Morris - May 18, 2017

Södra Cell has pioneered TCF pulp but with the evolution in the market and in ECF bleaching technology, the company has significantly boosted its growing position in ECF. Södra’s latest investments have included the new...

Multi-solutions for multi-shoppers

May / June 2017 Fernanda Accorsi - May 18, 2017

Product positioning, choosing a loud and clear way to communicate a product’s attributes, inspiring and educating shoppers: Fernanda Accorsi, founder of F.A. Retail, talks to TWM about changing retail trends We do not wear...

Brazil consumer tissue: lingering effects of economic downturn

May / June 2017 Helen Morris - May 18, 2017

Brazil’s economy has experienced one of its worst recessions, with real GDP contracting once again by 3.4% in 2016. With economic downturn, the value of private final consumption fell by 3.5% in 2015 and only a marginal...

Chinese tissue market in a good growth phase but oversupply continues

May / June 2017 Esko Uutela - May 18, 2017

According to a recent talk by Zhang Yulan, of the China National Household Paper Association (CNHPIA), in 2016 the Chinese tissue business maintained growth, and the expansion of the tissue industry continued at a good pace –...

Pulp and Paper United do the nation proud

May / June 2017 Helen Morris - May 18, 2017

Let’s describe general economic performance in recent years as a football match … why not, this is Brazil after all: it has been an end-to-end thriller. TWM must first apologise to those across the...

How to achieve growth in a national crisis

May / June 2017 Helen Morris - May 18, 2017

These are turbulent times in Brazil – but tissue is toughing it out. Helen Morris, Tissue World magazine senior editor, visits Carta Fabril’s Rio de Janeiro headquarters as the company begins the start-up...

Family tissue: for babies’ noses… and Construction Club

May / June 2017 Helen Morris - May 18, 2017

Creativity is at the heart of Brazilian Melissa Hoemke’s family. After living in London for 12 years she wants to do right by the children and the environment, and...

‘We diversified, it was the only way to survive. And it worked.’

May / June 2017 Helen Morris - May 18, 2017

If ever a company was poised for an economic uplift it’s IPEL at its impressive new site in Indaial city. Managing director Juliano Silva talks growth, investment, flexibility, justice… and football...

Tissue World Milan: Global tissue ‘is reaching new peaks year after year’

May / June 2017 Helen Morris - May 18, 2017

Worldwide consumption stands at 36.3 million tonnes with estimated unmet potential at over 15 million tonnes in retail alone. As an increasingly complex and diverse marketplace presents great challenges and opportunities, Tissue World Milan...

Baotuo Paper Machinery supplying Baoding firms with TMs in China

May / June 2017 Helen Morris - May 18, 2017

(News from RISI) - Two small producers in Baoding city, Hebei province, China, recently purchased new tissue machines from domestic supplier Baotuo Paper Machinery. Mancheng Yongxing Paper has placed orders for two...

China’s Hengan starts new 60,000tpy TM in Chongqing

May / June 2017 Helen Morris - May 18, 2017

(News from RISI) - Hengan International has fired up a new 60,000tpy tissue machine at its mill in Chongqing municipality, southwestern China. The Andritz-supplied PM23 has a trim width of 5.6m, a...

Algeria’s PMI boosts capacity with TM investment

May / June 2017 Helen Morris - May 18, 2017

Paper Mill Investment (PMI) has invested in an Andritz-supplied PrimeLineCOMPACT tissue machine with Steel Yankee and shoe press. The new plant will produce high-quality facial wipes as well as toilet and towel...

Cascades 1Q margins impacted; results in the near-term to benefit from price increases

May / June 2017 Helen Morris - May 18, 2017

Cascades has said higher raw material prices, lower jumbo roll sales and new facility construction investments have impacted its first quarter 2017 results. Sales were stable at $1,006m compared to $1,003m in...

WEPA targets European AfH market with Van Houtum acquisition

May / June 2017 Helen Morris - May 18, 2017

WEPA Hygieneprodukte is to boost its AfH capacity in Europe with the acquisition of Netherlands-based Van Houtum Group Holding. The purchase is subject to the approval of the competition authorities and is...

GP invests $400m in consumer business; funding approved for TAD line

May / June 2017 Helen Morris - May 18, 2017

Georgia-Pacific (GP) is to boost its private label branded capacity with a $400m investment in its GP Consumer (retail) tissue and towel business. Funding has been approved for a through-air-dried (TAD) paper...

Hengan Group boosts capacity with investment

May / June 2017 Helen Morris - May 4, 2017

China’s Hengan Group has started up its 12th Andritz-supplied PrimeLineTM W8 tissue machine. The line is based at the company’s Chongqing mill and has a design speed of 2,000m/min and a width...

Sun Paper boosts capacity with investment

May / June 2017 Helen Morris - May 4, 2017

South Carolina-based Sun Paper has invested in its packaging facilities after purchasing a XF800 wrapper line from PCMC. It will be installed in October 2017 and is replacing a reciprocating wrapper that...

Ningxia Jiamei gets two new TMs for mill in Wuzhong, Ningxia

May / June 2017 Helen Morris - May 4, 2017

(News from RISI) Ningxia Jiamei Paper will install two new 20,000tpy tissue machines at its mill in Wuzhong city, in northwest China’s Ningxia autonomous region. The producer has placed orders for the...

The countdown to Tissue World São Paulo has begun!

May / June 2017 Helen Morris - May 4, 2017

The Latin American tissue industry is gearing up to attend Tissue World São Paulo - the only key meeting point for the region’s growing and dynamic tissue market. Whether on the show...

SCA reports 1Q EBITDA decrease of 2%; 5% net sales increase

May / June 2017 Helen Morris - May 4, 2017

SCA has reported an EBITDA decreased of 2% to SEK 797m in its first quarter 2017 interim results. Net sales increased 5% to SEK 3,969m compared to the same time a year...